Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, and the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, for their...

We now come to 20 minutes allocated for Back-Bench questions. I ask that questions and answers be...

My Lords, we should all broadly welcome the defence Command Paper, which puts our Armed Forces in...

I thank the noble and gallant Lord. He raises an important point. I would observe that, across th...

My Lords, it is good to ask a supplementary question on this after seeing my noble friend Lord Yo...

Without hesitation, I reassure my noble friend that such is the case; the continuous at-sea deter...

My Lords, there is much to be welcomed in the defence Command Paper and the integrated review. As...

I reassure the right reverend Prelate that, as he is aware, we currently engage in activity in Af...

Can the Minister tell us whether the latest reduction of our Armed Forces will have any impact on...

The review means that we have recognised the pace of change to both the intensity and the charact...

Can the Minister explain the logic of increasing our reliance on nuclear weapons and decreasing o...

I have already indicated to your Lordships why we consider maintenance of a credible minimum nucl...

My Lords, the innovative, offensive National Cyber Force taking shape with defence SIS and GCHQ p...

The noble and gallant Lord is quite correct that this is a shared departmental responsibility. I ...

[Inaudible]—review, which I warmly welcome. The proposals for Army numbers stand out alarmingly, ...

We are aware that much of the conventional and traditional format of the military again has been ...

My Lords, the integrated review and this defence paper are extremely important documents. To pick...

I say to the noble Lord that business in the Chamber is not my responsibility; it is the responsi...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness mentioned Lossiemouth, and as I had the good fortune to be the Me...

As the noble Lord is aware, we have a partnership at the moment with our American friends, who pr...

My Lords, now that the Regular Army is once again to be reduced in size in order to provide addit...

I say to the noble Lord, whose experience in these matters I hugely respect, that we have to look...

My Lords, it is a great pity that this thoughtful and considered defence review should be so spoi...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for raising something of critical importance because we in ...

My Lords, we have always maintained that the purpose of our nuclear weapons is nuclear deterrence...

The protocols surrounding nuclear weapons have been widely understood. They exist as a deterrent ...

The time for questions has now elapsed.